“I couldn’t explain that at all”
Gregor Gysi was unintentionally known in football game
01/25/2025 – 12:36 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
Gregor Gysi is looking forward to the duel of his favorite clubs on Sunday at the Millerntor. In the Hamburg stadium he was once known without wanting it.
Left politician Gregor Gysi combines a special relationship with the clubs FC St. Pauli and 1. FC Union Berlin-and a curious experience. In the Millerntor Stadium, he involuntarily came into contact with cannabis in the early 1990s. “When I came out of the stadium, I was more bad in my life before and never afterwards,” said the politician in the Podcast “Millerntalk” from the “Hamburger Abendblatt”.
“I couldn’t explain that until I realized that they had not smoked around me, but I thought, but killed all the time. And I had inhaled all the stuff,” the 77-year-old continued .
On Sunday (from 5:30 p.m. in the live ticker at T-Online), promoted St. Pauli welcomes 1. FC Union Berlin in the Bundesliga. For both clubs, it is important points to distance themselves from the relegation ranks.
The then 18 -year -old Gysi experienced how Union was founded. And he experienced his first visit to the stadium in the stadium on the old forestry. “The fans were always something special,” he said. The Union fan follows the events of both clubs, but it has an association that is particularly important to him. “St. Pauli is one of my favorite teams. Of course, in the coming game I have to be logically for the 1. FC Union, but otherwise I’m always for St. Pauli,” he clarified.
The political messages of the fans of the neighborhood club impressed Gysi: “The fans were the only ones who always had left sayings on it,” he said. In the game he saw in Hamburg at the time, he would only have noticed because of the noises that goals were scored because everyone was “much longer” in front of him.